Acacia glaucoptera

Acacia glaucoptera

Flat or Clay wattle

2017

22 x 31cm

Watercolour on Fabriano Artistico white cotton rag 300 gsm

This species has, instead of leaves, modified leaf stalks (phyllodes) that perform as leaves, and change colour as they age from red-orange, to bluish green to yellow. This gives the plant an odd appearance, as the eye is used to seeing branches and stems separately from leaves.